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Dear Xavier,
Great to remind us all about the key role of the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) for labour matching and skills anticipation. Since most labour markets are open to international migration, it is crucial, in this regard, to make sure that any LMIS takes into account labour migration (both emigration and immigration), and its impact on human capital formation and skills dynamics. To my knowledge, the most ambitious endeavour to conceptualize integration of labour migration into LMIS in a pragmatic way and taking into consideration the reality of labour information in developing countries is the study I directed in 2011 for the International Organization for Migration in six developing countries, including Tunis among the ETF partner countries:
LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND LABOUR MIGRATION INFORMATION IN SIX DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE CHALLENGE OF INTEGRATION. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COLOMBIA, COSTA RICA, GHANA, NICARAGUA, SENEGAL AND TUNISIA.
https://www.ilo.org/dyn/migpractice/docs/280/LMIS.pdf
It certainly needs an update by now, but it is still relevant (and actually used recently as a reference framework for a project in four countries Central America including México). There are versions of the study in English, French and Spanish.
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You are totally right! LMIS should take into account mobility and migration, and its impact on human capital. As a matter a fact, migration (when it is not "fully" voluntary) can also be seen as an effect of a mismatch between skills demand and supply and the lack of jobs, and so any attempt to understand the dynamics of the labour market has to consider mobility and migration.
You are also right in the importance of integrated approaches that embed measures and mechanisms to support migrants into the general employment systems and policies. Turkey's example of using existing mechanisms for validation of non formal and informal learning for several sectors in the labour market for the skills identification of refugees is a good practice in this respect.
https://sharing.etf.europa.eu/sites/dms/ops/qualf/Documents/Turkey%20ha…